From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Warsaw Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:12:16 -0400 Organization: Damn Crazy Followers of the Horn Message-ID: <20141029141216.7abbbc0d@anarchist.wooz.org> References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> <20141029004942.GA25241@thyrsus.com> <20141029105202.249acb5a@anarchist.wooz.org> <87bnouapiy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029150600.GA5701@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/X4/d1aejqP2L/VbW+pIPS.o"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414606393 16497 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 18:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:13:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 19:13:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXjy-0003uh-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:13:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXjx-000131-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXjf-00012s-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXja-0005GQ-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:12:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXjZ-0005GJ-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjXjS-0003Wg-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:12:30 +0100 Original-Received: from mail.wooz.org ([216.15.33.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:12:30 +0100 Original-Received: from barry by mail.wooz.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:12:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.wooz.org X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176026 Archived-At: --Sig_/X4/d1aejqP2L/VbW+pIPS.o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >David Kastrup : >> Barry Warsaw writes: >>=20 >> > [*] Although it's true that some bzr merge operations can "mess with" >> > those numbers, it's generally bad practice to use merge in such a way >> > as to cause this to happen. >>=20 >> My asking-for-trouble meter just rang off the hook. > >*shudder* And rightly so! Sure, but it's rare and only happens with some funky (and I'd argue incorre= ct directionally) merges. And besides, those sequential numbers are only for = our convenience, right? ;) Revision ids of course are inviolate. Cheers, -Barry --Sig_/X4/d1aejqP2L/VbW+pIPS.o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUUS4AAAoJEBJutWOnSwa/qPUP+wT12UUU7EjwB0LTg2eze1ex y7sFEfoaMLan/HenW7DHTgK7aFNRLIgcEFYhIEy3Mckz2WUbPPkJ9xVbZRaIgFpi +33mEjqABzuSAky7VwixBSATy8UOwiIYV+2TFZMxlAN4d5Yo/iIx7TSoDU9hz0oL fj3kTQyYF9I4Az8jxtDeTc2BhU4f4XBWriN33Q8snmiPxG3bpBR5ujqUnbnUIcVE tSbKmJQER2UoJ3qX5Xd13ORCa+MLSW8iRG9rejYPoS/hrTnmvlmU1vcpIrmGVkPd XQSjchTJuIQg47+Cv7gSyK9w+uIfSb5RYQcA0PnUOYqz7AAaDfvU+2eKf/cIDpNi /P4bVaj8QZ0k37gFfyfubSBiIh8vRxvybNmloFOBtYPY2z0TpImwLvUjmZeVKep3 Yj/msEpNrl/HUhP9R0v7L1nGCRPJruHjlMnPOie/z0lOEwghRwbgJhJE8+p+7mBD 1johcewcxOIkvbYBInnq9U4m+x7q+38Oy1Ncd9PiqFWTSIzGLFPkJ6crco2uK6GH 6JpqIMB/6XUQunLk0PEzCnJW6kjrmf5/Ck3lT8ts65SEXw+hSsBPwgpBzaou/bQG hIgVrFRnbWFNiQBx8e3LN4cBMqp+v2f9kWa0RmU9/AbvVzyz/MXG87faJ7rYX1Xb O6WAR86+u2B8KsxrOs0b =mD51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/X4/d1aejqP2L/VbW+pIPS.o--